The Geology of Landscapes: Times, rhythms, palimpsests of the Rhenish crater

The Rhenish crater is one of Europe’s largest and deepest open-cast coal mines. Humans have transformed the landscape to the point of giving life to a new geological era. The mine is the symbol of humanity’s power over territorial, environmental, and climatic transformations at impressive levels of scale and scope.<br/>This contribution sums up...

A historical review of sediment export–import shift in the North Branch of Changjiang Estuary

Net sediment transport is predominantly seaward in fluvial-dominated estuaries worldwide. However, a distributary branch in the Changjiang Estuary, the North Branch, undergoes net landward sediment transport, which leads to severe channel aggradation. Its controlling mechanism and the role of human activities remain insufficiently understood,...

Integrated coastal policy via Building with Nature

The thesis which appears here is excerpted from the book Integrated Coastal Zone Development via Building with Nature® (Waterman 2008a, 2008b). Although this approach was first applied in the Netherlands, it has gradually been recognized worldwide as a harmonious means of creating land areas for living, working, tourism & recreation, and...

USING FLOCCULANTS TO ENCLOSE SILT PARTICLES IN THE PORE VOLUME OF SAND

Biogeomorphology of large-scale coastal land reclamations

Projections are that Rotterdam, one of the worlds' largest harbours, will be in need of 1250 hectares of additional harbour area within the next 15 years. To meet this demand a substantial land reclamation ("Maasvlakte-2") is considered, which could provide 1000 hectares of new harbour areas and 750 hectares for nature and recreation. In...

Assessment of the effect of the reclamation of acid sulphate soil for agricultural development in Vietnam

Vietnam is an agricultural country where rice is the main crop cultivated in the Red river delta in the North and in the Mekong delta in the South. Both deltas refer to lowland. However, the degree of development is clearly different between the two deltas. In the Red river delta, the dike system as well as the canal networks have been...

Land uit Zee, de afsluiting en gedeeltelijke droogmaking der zuiderzee

Informatiebrochure met detailtekeningen van dijken en gemalen.

Het Eems estuarium

Bundel met twee versies van het plan van Ferguson voor verbetering van het Eemsestuarium, het verslag over berekeningen inzake de waterbeweging in het Eemsestuarium, in verband met zijn normalisatie van Dronkers, het overzicht van de uitkomsten van getijberekeningen betreffende het Eemsestuarium bij verruimd Doekegat en resp. bij geheel of...